Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students 634
English teacher Natalie Munroe is in a bit of hot water after she described the precious snowflakes in her class as: “Frightfully dim,” “Rat-like,” “Am concerned your kid is going to open fire on the school,” “I hate your kid,” and “Seems smarter than she actually is,” on her blog. The Central Bucks School District has suspended Natalie after parents complained to administrators. “It’s hard to know that you sat in her class for an hour and a half a day and for her to feel that way it is like, it is an awful feeling,” student Alli Woloshyn said.
Re:Says the blog was shut down. (Score:5, Informative)
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sOtUI146FXAJ:natalieshandbasket.blogspot.com/2010/01/if-you-dont-have-anything-nice-to-say.html%3FshowComment%3D1297206567911+natalieshandbasket.blogspot.com+rat+dim&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com [googleusercontent.com]
cached link from google (Score:4, Informative)
I don't know about you but her comments are pretty funny. True though, it's probably not the best thing to blog about as a teacher. The students' comments were pretty great.
Re:Less Honesty Please... (Score:4, Informative)
Here's a link to a relevant cached post from the blog.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3xdfvZq3_YMJ:natalieshandbasket.blogspot.com/2009/10/big-problem-today.html+%22Where+are+we+going,+and+why+are+we+in+this+handbasket%22+%22Natalie%22+%22A+big+problem+today%22&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com [googleusercontent.com]
Re:Says the blog was shut down. (Score:5, Informative)
I dug up the last year's worth of posts (all two of them since this one). One refers nonspecifically about a co-worker's going-away party, and the other is a review of a fast-food restaurant.
All the "firing-worthy" comments cited in the news are from a single blog post from over a year ago? Somehow I'm underwhelmed. For those who can't be bothered to read it, it's simply a generic bulleted list of "I wish these were allowed canned report card comments"; it doesn't refer to any particular students, classroom or even year. Not exactly professional conduct, but... isn't this the same Slashdot that was rejoicing not one week ago about a ruling that a different state worker couldn't be fired for personal blog comments about her employer?